Fuel Cell

There's no single silver bullet that will reduce the energy consumption and emissions from the 80 million new road vehicles sold globally each year. Instead, thousands of individual efforts to improve the efficiency of powertrains, reduce vehicle weight, cut wind resistance, and all the rest come...

The Nikola One uses hydrogen fuel cells to generate electricity for its massive lithium-ion battery pack.

Hydrogen fuel-cell cars still face many challenges.

Honda still says the 2017 Clarity Fuel Cell will go on sale before the end of the year.

Stanford researchers found that battery-electric cars are a better option than fuel cells.

The U.S. Maritime Administration says a fuel-cell ferry would be much more expensive to operate than conventional diesel vessels.

A hydrogen fuel-cell train will enter service in Germany next year.

A Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel-cell car won the 2016 e-Rally Monte Carlo.

The Toyota Mirai has taken the lead in U.S. sales of hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles, though it was beaten to market early last year by the Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell. Through September, Toyota has sold 710 of its four-person Mirai sedan—though up to half of those sales came in August to employees...

Toyota will deliver its first hydrogen fuel-cell buses next year.

Infrastructure company Air Liquide is launching a new marketing campaign to promote fuel cells.

Electric cars are virtually as old as the auto industry, but hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles are not. In fact, exactly fifty years ago this month, GM showed off the first one, which it called the Electrovan. This remarkable and innovative prototype for a zero-emission vehicle used the body of an...

Infrastructure company Air Liquide is launching an app to find hydrogen fueling stations.

Honda will use National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day to promote its Clarity Fuel Cell sedan.

The Chevrolet Colorado ZH2 will begin testing with the U.S. Army next year.

The 2017 Toyota Mirai carries over essentially unchanged.

Nikola Motor Company now says its Class 8 semi truck will use hydrogen fuel cells.

Chevy and the U.S. Army will unveil their jointly-developed Colorado-based fuel-cell prototype in October.

While you might think that any zero-emission vehicle would be viewed as a good thing, hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles continue to generate opposition among some electric-car fans. Perhaps viewing them as competition for long-range battery electric vehicles of the sort now planned by virtually every...

Toyota is teaching California high-school students about fuel-cell cars.